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PETER SOMMER, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, JOHN SOMMER, OF POINT LOCKOUT, UTAH, AND PETER W. SOMMER AND JOSEPH W. SOMMER, OE PEOEIA, ILLINOIS; BENJAMIN L. SUMMER EXEGUTOR OF SAID JOSEPH W. SOMMER, DECEASED.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1911.

Application filed July 5, 1902. Serial No. 114,524.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER SoMMER, residing at Peoria,in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, JOHN SUMMER, residing at Point Lookout, in the county of Boxelder and State of Utah, and PETER W. SoMMnR and Josnrr-r SOMMER, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Fence-Fabric Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to fencefabric machines, the principle involved consisting in making wire-fence fabrics on a machine comprising a rotating or traveling frame or drum suit-ably supported or journaled on a stationary base to permit of such movement or rotation of the frame, said frame or drum supporting or having associated therewith a plurality of carriages or shuttles, and means for reciprocating said carriages or shuttles during the movement of the frame or drum.

One of the objects of the present invention, is to facilitate the making or weaving of wire-fence-fabrics, such as heavy and light netting, on a machine that operates to advance the warp, longitudinal or strand wires continuously through the machine. In other words, the construction of the machine is such and the several elements so arranged that they will operate to automatically and continuously advance the warp, longitudinal or strand-wires and apply the woof, cross or stay-wires without any intermission or stoppage in the advance of the warp, longitudinal or strand-wires.

A further object of the invention is to enable the mechanism for feeding the warp, longitudinal or strand-wires forward and the mechanism for feeding the woof, cross or stay-wires forward, to both operate continuously.

The invention has for a further object to build a machine for making preferably a square-mesh fencing, that will carry on the several operations while the warp, longitudinal or strand-wires are being continuously advanced or drawn through the machine, in-

stead of alternately stopping and start-mg as is the case with most wire-fabric-machines.

For a further and full description of the invention herein and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for eflecting the result, reference is had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic fea tures of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan View showing the base of the machine and associated parts; Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the base and associated parts, and the supports of the movable frame or drum; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the base and supports of the movable frame or drum, omitting the fence-fabric weaving mechanism; Fig. 4 is a plan view in section of certain parts, including the base and supports of the frame or drum; Fig. 5 illustrates by several diflerent views certain castings or brackets; Fig. 6 is a View in elevation, partly in section, showing the base, frame, or drum, carriage or shuttles, coil mechanism and other parts; Fig. 7 is a front view of Fig. 6 and also showing parts not seen in Fig. 6; Fig. 8 is a view, somewhat enlarged, showing carriage or shuttle parts and support; Fig. 9 is an elevation of Fig. 8; Fig. 10 is an enlarged cross-section through Fig. 8; Fig. 11 is a view, somewhat enlarged, showing certain mechanism carried at the upper ends of the carriage bed; Fig. 12 is a section on the line w-m of Fig. 11; Figs. 13 and 14-. are elevations in section, showing details of parts illustrated in Fig. 11; Fig. 15 is an enlarged detail in plan, showing certain parts of the bed; Fig. 16 is a detail in plan of a device, of which there is a series movable with the rotating frame arranged for locking parts of the rotating frame just previous to the carriage ascending or crossing the frame and immediately upon the carriage reaching its lower-most point in the frame; Fig. 17 is a crosssection through parts of Fig. 15; Fig. 18 is an enlarged elevation of the twister section or needle; Fig. 19 illustrates in end elevation and cross-section the twister section or needle; Fig. 20 is an enlarged cross-section of parts of the carriage or shuttle; Fig. 21 illustrates in elevation parts of the carriage or shuttle and coiling devices or bobbin formers; Fig. 22 is an elevation of these parts; Fig. 23 is a coiling device or bobbin wire former; Fig. 24 is the coil or bobbin retainer carried by the twister section or needle; Fig. 25 is an elevation of devices carried at one end of each of the supports in which the carriage or shuttle is reciprocated, which said devices are cutters for severing the wires after the coil or bobbin has been made and the same deposited in the twister section or needle of the carriage or shuttle; Fig. 26 is an elevation of parts for shifting the coiling or bobbin forming devices to cause them to engage the twister sections or needles; Fig. 27 is an elevation of parts in the base of the rotating frame for actuating certain clutch parts and to simultaneously actuate the device shown in Fig. 26; Fig. 28 is a sectional elevation showing details of parts at the head and at the base of the rotating frame for actuating devices which in turn actuate the severing means shown in Fig. 25; Fig. 29 is a transverse section and elevation of the shifting device shown in Fig. 26; Fig. 30 is an enlarged vertical section of parts of the bed and rotating frame and clamping device; Fig. 31 is a view showing the style of fabric produced by our machine and illustrating the same just as received from the machine; Fig. 32 is a perspective view of a part of the mechanism at one end of each of the carriage or shuttle beds, showing particularly the stay-wire feed, the coil or bobbin formers and one of the twisters or needles; Fig. 33 is an enlarged sectional detail showing a portion of one of the twisters or needles, the bobbin spool or coil retained thereon, and a coil in the act of being placed in the twister; Fig. 34 is a view similar to Fig. 33, except that the coil or bobbin forming device has been shifted to place the bobbin or coil on the spool; Fig. 35 is a view similar to Fig 21, except that the twister or needle has been moved to the position in which the needle or twister is shown in Fig. 33, where the bobbin has just been placed in the needle preparatory to being placed on the spool; Fig. 36 is a view similar to Fig. 35, except that the bobbin formers or coil retainers have been shifted to place the bobbins or coils on the spools, the same as in Fig. 34; Fig. 37 is an elevation showing parts similar to that shown in Figs. 35 and 36, except that the carriage or shuttle supporting or carrying the twister or needle has receded from the bobbin former or started on its journey across the bed of the machine carrying with it the formed bob bin, and just previous to the severance of the stay-secti0n; Fig. 38 is an elevation partly in section of parts seen in Fig. 37

Fig. 39 shows a plan of one of the twisters or needles and the bobbin or coil receiving seats in said needles, also the spools which are intended to hold the bobbins in the needles, the spools being detached from the needles; Fig 40 is a view somewhat similar to Fig. 39, except that the spools are at tached to the needles and the bobbins or coils are shown in operative position on said spools; Figs. 41, 42, and 43 are perspective views in detail of a portion of one of the twisters or needles showing the manner in which the same are operated to wrap or coil the stay-section or bobbin-wire about the longitudinal wires of the fence; Fig. 44 is an enlarged detail in perspective of a portion of the bed of the machine showing the clamping blocks between which the warp, longitudinal or strand wires are held in their passage through the machine; Fig. 45 is an elevation of parts similar to what is shown in Fig. 6, except that'the clamping blocks are in place, clamping upon the warp longitudinal or strand wires of the fence. Fig. 46 is a top plan view showing four complete wire attaching units or stay-wire coiling mechanisms, and a part of the fifth; the top frame above one of said units being removed to show the relation of the several parts in place, and further illustrating the wire attaching means attaching the stays to the lowermost strands or longitudinal wires, the arrow on the figure designating the direction of travel of the strand wires; Fig. 47 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in section, showing one of the complete units or wire connecting mechanisms and associated parts, the relation of the parts being substantially the position of the parts seen in plan in Fig. 46, where the top of the frame has been removed; Fig. 48 is a diagram of parts of the frame and certain associated parts of one of the units, and illustrates the manner in which a reverse operation is alternately imparted to certain clutch parts for feeding and withdrawing the stay-wire.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures.

In the drawings, 1 refers to a base-plate or frame-support arranged with an outer annular flange or ring 2, and 3 is a tubular bearing centrally arranged in said base, and 4 are spider arms connecting the tubular support 3 with the outer ring 2.

5 is an internal ring-gear secured to the inner concave face of the flange or ring, and extends part way around the circumference of the inner face thereof, and 6 is a segmental cog-rack having a convex presentedsurface supported in the manner shown by several of the spider arms 4, and in such a manner that the cog-face is removed a short distance from the inner face of the flange 2 and opposite the space left vacant where the 

